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The motto ” Meglio vivere..etc ” has nothing to do with Mussolini.

It was coined in 1918 during the Battle Of The River Piave, led by General Armando Diaz, agaainst the Austrians.

[Daphne – It has since, however, become associated with Mussolini, which is why sensible people don’t quote it. And that is aside from the fact that the man who lived one day as a lion ended up lynched by a mob and strung upside down with his mistress.]

Fair? I just read something in the newspapers – I don’t even know which one and I don’t care – which made my stomach churn. It said that Franco Debono said that Beppe is a liar just like his father was.

I read that much on some headline on the front page which continues on some other page inside the actual paper. Of course, reading that phrase is enough for me to make me loathe Franco Debono, but then, why do I loathe him and others like him?

I feel cheated, angry and bitter, but not because Gonzi will, in a few short months, no longer be in government but because the people who will govern us are the ones who are hypocritically insulting us this morning during the PL General Conference.

This morning, a certain Yana Mintoff something took the “podium” at the Labour conference and regaled us with HER version of life here in the last 20 years.

She said that the Maltese have horrible conditions of work, that we have no decent life, that we’re horribly treated, that our air is polluted, our electricity dirty, our waters murky, our roads disastrous (particularly fis-sawt), and basically she described us living in some dump. She also said that her father is worried because the Maltese are not leading a decent life.

[Daphne – Her father being Dom Mintoff, who is senile.]

She said that under Labour, our work conditions were great, we had a great life and all of us went about life skipping happily and singing a merry tune. How would she know? She didn’t live here. She lived in England – because her mother was English – and was at the time busy making the London newspaper headlines by throwing sacks of manure about in the British parliament.

Of course for people like Yana, life had to be a bed of roses under her father or Labour in general. While we lived in hell, she did what she pleased – the Aisha Gaddafi of her time.

The fact is that life under Labour is miserable. I can already hear the rumblings of it. Like an approaching thunderstorm, I can hear Joseph’s words foreboding an inevitable yet inexorable reality: a Labour government will give importance to what infrastructurally really matters, a Labour government will let you work, a Labour government will not waste money on things which are only cosmetic.

When I hear people like Leo Brincat who speaks about il-pajjiz stagnat, and Anglu Farrugia and all the other stalwarts, young and old, speaking about living in hell now, I cannot but think to myself, hell?

If these people think this is hell they do not want to preserve what we have now.They want to take away this “hell” as substitute it with what was really hell. Only, now it will be worse because we have got used to those little things in life which people who just scrape through, who have trouble keeping up their mortgage payments, if they manage at all, do not even dream about.

It will only take one year but one year down the line we will all look back (not I, because I already know this), but as a nation we will collectively look back and think what fools we are to have thrown “hell” away. But then, alas, it will be too late.

While people are saying that life is hell, they are eating out in restaurants and having their hair done whilst the irony should be screaming at them from the menus they’re perusing and from under the hair-driers which are drowning out their conversation.

I didn’t wake up in a bad moood today. My mood was stellar. However, the sudden sadness that came crushing down on me, when I heard this Yana addressing the conference, all I could say was: b’liema dritt? Kif ma jisthux?

Yet, there she was, insulting our way of life as indecent, and telling us that her father was worried about our indecent way of life. He, he whose legacy is ignorance and hatred, is worrying about OUR way of life.

This is how I see it.

Franco will cross the floor to form a coalition against Gonzi, where Joseph will be Prime Minister and Franco Debono Minister for Justice and vice prime minister.

Gonzi presents his resignation from party leader and in comes Dalli to grab what’s left of the PN.

Within six months we will see the Sargas power station contract signed.

And predictably enough Super One never covered that news item. Miskina Claudette, kollox tort ta’ ta dawk in-Nazzjonalisti!

I believe what Dr Fenech Adami says, Mr Martin Borg.